Now she is a believer, not only in the ecstatic joy of dancing, but also in its redemptive powers.

To his surprise the newly freed black population turned out to greet him with "wild, indescribable, ecstatic joy," in the words of one contemporary journalist.

Schmidt fled the scene in terror, but also felt ecstatic joy in committing his first murder.

Here we accept God's invitation to transform material existence, and there is ecstatic joy in that.

Then I took Dr Larry in my arms and cried like a child with ecstatic joy.

How I do it now is in the life of the body, physical ecstatic joy.

But she came vibrantly alive in the balcony scene, making her bending and curving movements a sign of an almost ecstatic joy.

"Louis," I said aloud, a wave of ecstatic joy coming over me.

He took her virginity with care, giving her so much ecstatic joy in the taking that she scarcely noticed pain.

Morose sentiments lean toward tragedy, while their voices translate good moods into ecstatic joy.